Dji Mic Review

You keep an eye on the DJI Mic by way of the touchscreen show at the receiver, however there are bodily buttons, too. Every transmitter includes a bodily report, hyperlink, and gear button.

Whilst within the charging case, the receiver’s show displays you the battery existence for each transmitters and the receiver, in addition to the volume of onboard reminiscence to be had. Putting off the receiver routinely adjustments the show to turn you enter acquire ranges and the sign energy out of your transmitters.

Swiping down at the touchscreen’s primary show brings you to the higher menu and lets you dive additional into the DJI Mic controls. Right here, you’ll regulate receiver acquire, headphone output stage, transmitter settings, and show choices like LED brightness. You’ll additionally make a selection from 3 recording modes: Mono, Stereo or Ms (mono with protection observe).

In mono mode, the audio you report with one or each transmitters will cross to at least one observe. In stereo mode, the use of each transmitters will separate the audio into left and proper channels. Finally, mono with protection gives a treasured characteristic: the DJI Mic will report a 2nd reproduction audio observe (with 6dB much less acquire carried out) as a backup should you run into distortion or clipping from any surprising stage jumps whilst recording. Connecting the transmitter by way of the USB-C port and the use of your video enhancing instrument means that you can get admission to this secondary observe for edits.

Sadly, that is the place some iPhone customers are compelled to appear for an extra third-party adaptor in the event that they need to use all 3 recording modes. Whilst DJI supplies a Lightning adaptor for the receiver, the DJI Mic does no longer give a boost to any two-channel recording for Lightning customers. This implies no stereo recording and no get admission to to the mono with protection observe mode, which may be recorded to a stereo observe. Whilst you are going to to find this data within the DJI Mic consumer handbook, this limitation for Lightning customers isn’t discussed at the product’s webpage. In all probability DJI may have a instrument replace sooner or later, however up to now, you’re left to the web message forums to search out a suitable workaround, like purchasing a Lightning to USB-C adaptor to make use of those two channel options.

Finally, swiping up from the principle show takes you to the decrease menu. The transmitters seem as TX1 and TX2. Right here, you’ll to find differently to report or mute and the approach to structure the onboard reminiscence.